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Trains in the Final Fantasy VII series of games are part of a train system used in Midgar as the city's public transportation system between the city sectors.

The system is run on Midgar Standard Time, with the system threaded throughout the city's upper plate and linked to a neglected train graveyard in the city's slums via a giant circular track that spirals up the city's central pillar. These rail systems are heavily monitored by the city's security system, with various security checkpoints along the routes used to automatically scan the ID cards of the passengers. An invalid ID results in the train being locked down car by car.

Story[]

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-[]

Zack Fair's first training mission takes place on the roof of a moving train; part of a digital holographic training simulation used to train SOLDIER members.

Another train can be seen at the Sector 1 Station, which links to the Sector 5 Slums with Sector 8. The train is called the MK93 II, however, a boy at the platform says that an even newer model, the MK100-90, is in the works. Before the MK93 II, the MK100-70 was Shinra's main locomotive. It was modified more than 5,000 times to keep it operational. By the time of Crisis Core, the MK100-70 has been abandoned in the slums' train graveyard.^[1]

Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-[]

The Player Turk is tasked with the protection of Professor Rayleigh from the forces of AVALANCHE while traveling onboard a train.

As the professor is carrying classified materials on SOLDIER, and so is a highly valuable target, a small unit of Shinra Military troops are also issued to ensure her protection; among them a young trooper called Cloud Strife.

Final Fantasy VII[]

The Midgar train system is used by Cloud and the members of the reformed AVALANCHE group to enter Sector 1 and bomb Mako Reactor 1 and later used to escape the scene; using fake ID cards, they then returned to the Sector 7 Slums.

The party can witness various abandoned locomotives and train cars in the train graveyard between Sector 6 and Sector 7 slums. Some of them are still movable, allowing the party to make their way through.

Final Fantasy VII Remake[]

Trains appear as a mode of transport. The player boards them as part of the story. The trains are operated by Shinra and scan their passengers' ID cards; if someone fails an ID check, they are to be arrested. The trains run around the Corkscrew Tunnel from the slums to the topside of Midgar.

The train graveyard has become haunted by ghosts, and the demon Eligor.

Locations[]

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Last Train from Midgar[]

Cargo Car[]

Cargo Car.

Accessed from the Sector 8 - Bridge after a cutscene, Cloud meets the rest of AVALANCHE in this car. It is dark with a blue tint, due to its lighting, and mostly metallic and filled with wiideb crates, and contains no passengers.

Car #1[]

The second car, this contains a few passengers, until Barret scares most of them away. To Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station. The car contains green benches along the side, and all the members of AVALANCHE can be interacted with here. At the front right, Jessie stands next to a routemap, which Cloud can access by speaking to her.

Train to Sector 4[]

This train takes the party to Sector 4 - Tunnels. A timer occurs here during their escape, though if it finishes before the fifth car, the player will jump off early.

Car #1[]

The first car accessed from Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station. This contains multiple non-player characters, though the one at the back-right can offer an item when spoken to, which is 1 Phoenix Down. The timer here is fifteen seconds.

Car #2[]

The second car is identical in appearance, though the camera angle is flipped. This time, the non-player character at the front-left must be spoken to in order to obtain the item here, which is 1 Hi-Potion. The timer here is fifteen seconds.

Car #3[]

The third car is viewed from a completely different top-down camera angle. This car features a gil thief named 'Suri' who robs exactly 100 gil from the player (if the player has less than 100 gil, nothing happens), who can be chased down and made to return their gil. The timer here is thirty seconds.

Car #4[]

The fourth car is identical in appearance to the third, and features no non-player characters with items. The timer here is seventeen seconds.

Car #5[]

The fifth car is viewed from a similar buy slightly lower angle to the first. This is the final car, and the party always gets off here. The passengers here are all Shinra soldiers.

Coal Train[]

Main article: Coal Train

The Coal Train is drastically different from the train in Midgar, as it is not used as commercial transport, but instead to move Materia around, and not running on Mako energy, the Coal Train

Stations[]

Midgar train route map from FFVII Remake — Train route map in *Final Fantasy VII Remake*.

Each sector in Midgar has at least one train station, making a total of eight stations used by passengers to embark and disembark at various points in the city proper.

In the Midgar slums there exists at least one station, which is also linked to the train graveyard.

The train services operate from 5:13 am to 1:35 am .

Gameplay[]

Quests[]

A train first appears briefly in the chapter "At the Hideout in the Slums", on the way from Sector 8 to Sector 7. Here, the only goal is to interact with AVALANCHE, particularly Jessie, to view the roadmap. Later, in "To the No. 5 Reactor" a train from Sector 7 to Sector 5 features, though a quest is involved in which Cloud and AVALANCHE must escape the train quickly, determining where in Sector 4 they arrive.

Coal Train[]

Main article: Coal Train § Quests

The Coal Train requires the player to prevent it crashing in order to unlock the Huge Materia.

Date mechanics[]

The two Midgar trains can both have a slight effect on the hidden date mechanics.

When Jessie is talking to Cloud in the first Car of the train from Midgar, his answer affects the game's date mechanics:

"Thanks anyway" (No change)
"Looking forward to it" (-3 Tifa)

On the second train to Sector 4, getting through the train without being caught by the security system affects the date mechanics in a following manner: (+5 Tifa, +5 Barret)

Behind the scenes[]

Although it is revealed that the train was part of a holographic training simulation, the opening scene of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- mirrors the start of the original Final Fantasy VII. The opening scene of Final Fantasy VII itself was also remade as a technical demo of the PlayStation 3's graphic system. The scene reprises again in Final Fantasy VII Remake.

Built underneath Midgar, Deepground has a separate monorail system that ferries people through the underground city to various locations.

In Final Fantasy VII Remake, the Sector 7 slums' train station has two NPC boys who discuss decommissioned trains, mentioning models 131, 97 and 102. These numbers appear to allude to the dates the original Final Fantasy VII was released in Japan: January 31st, 1997 (97.1.31.), and October 2nd, 1997 (97.10.2.) for the International Version.

Gallery[]

↑ Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- script § "Chapter 7"

[1] Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- script § "Chapter 7"

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-[[File:FF7TrainFF7.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The Train in the opening of ''Final Fantasy VII''.]]
+{{DISPLAYTITLE:Train (''Final Fantasy VII'')}}
+{{infobox vehicle
-The '''Trains''' in the ''[[Compilation of Final Fantasy VII]]'' are part of a train system used in [[Midgar]] as the city's public transportation system between the city sectors.
+|name=Train
+|release=FFVII
+|image=FF7TrainFF7.jpg
+|type=[[List of trains|Train]]
+|role=Transport throughout [[Midgar]]
+|affiliation=[[Midgar]]
+}}
+'''Trains''' in the [[Final Fantasy VII series|''Final Fantasy VII'' series]] of games are part of a train system used in [[Midgar]] as the city's public transportation system between the city sectors.
-The system is run on Midgar Standard Time, with the system threaded throughout the city's upper plate and linked to a neglected [[Train Graveyard]] in the city's slums via a giant circular track that spirals up the city's central pillar. These rail systems are heavily monitored by the city's security system, with various security checkpoints along the routes used to automatically scan the ID cards of the passengers. An invalid ID results in the train being locked down car by car.
+The system is run on Midgar Standard Time, with the system threaded throughout the city's upper plate and linked to a neglected [[train graveyard]] in the [[Midgar Slums|city's slums]] via a giant circular track that spirals up the city's central pillar. These rail systems are heavily monitored by the city's security system, with various security checkpoints along the routes used to automatically scan the ID cards of the passengers. An invalid ID results in the train being locked down car by car.
 ==Story==
 ===''[[Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-]]''===
-{{sideicon|VIICC}}
 [[File:Sector1.png|right|200px]]
-[[Zack Fair]]'s first training mission in ''Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-'' takes place on the roof of a moving train; part of a digital holographic training simulation used to train [[SOLDIER]] members.
+[[Zack Fair]]'s first training mission takes place on the roof of a moving train; part of a [[Virtual Reality System|digital holographic training simulation]] used to train [[SOLDIER]] members.
-Another train can be seen at the [[Sector 1]] Station, which links to the [[Sector 5]] Slums with [[Sector 8]]. The train is called the MK93 II, however, a boy at the platform says that an even newer model, the MK100-90, is in the works.
+Another train can be seen at the [[Sector 1]] Station, which links to the [[Sector 5 Slums]] with [[Sector 8]]. The train is called the {{A|MK93 II}}, however, a boy at the platform says that an even newer model, the MK100-90, is in the works. Before the MK93 II, the MK100-70 was Shinra's main locomotive. It was modified more than 5,000 times to keep it operational. By the time of ''Crisis Core'', the {{A|MK100-70}} has been abandoned in the slums' [[train graveyard]].{{cite|VIICC|script=Chapter 7}}
 ===''[[Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-]]''===
-{{sideicon|VIIBC}}
 [[File:FF7TrainBC1.jpg|right|thumb|Train station.]]
-In ''[[Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-]]'', the Player Turk is tasked with the protection of [[Rayleigh|Professor Rayleigh]] from the forces of [[AVALANCHE]] while traveling onboard a train.
+The Player Turk is tasked with the protection of [[Rayleigh|Professor Rayleigh]] from the forces of [[Avalanche (group)|AVALANCHE]] while traveling onboard a train.
-As the professor is carrying classified materials on [[SOLDIER]], and so is a highly valuable target, a small unit of Shinra Military troops are also issued to ensure her protection; amongst them a young trooper called [[Cloud Strife]].
+As the professor is carrying classified materials on SOLDIER, and so is a highly valuable target, a small unit of Shinra Military troops are also issued to ensure her protection; among them a young trooper called [[Cloud Strife]].
-{{-}}
+{{clear}}
 ===''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''===
+The Midgar train system is used by Cloud and the members of the reformed AVALANCHE group to enter Sector 1 and bomb [[Mako Reactor 1]] and later used to escape the scene; using fake ID cards, they then returned to the [[Sector 7|Sector 7 Slums]].
-{{sideicon|FFVII}}
-The Midgar train system is used by [[Cloud Strife]] and the members of the reformed [[AVALANCHE]] group to enter Sector 1 and bomb the [[Sector 1 Reactor]] and later used to escape the scene; using fake ID cards, they then returned to the [[Sector 7|Sector 7 Slums]].
+The party can witness various abandoned locomotives and train cars in the train graveyard between [[Sector 6]] and [[Sector 7]] slums. Some of them are still movable, allowing the party to make their way through.
+===''[[Final Fantasy VII Remake]]''===
+[[File:Train carriage from FFVII Remake.jpg|thumb]]
+Trains appear as a mode of transport. The player boards them as part of the story. The trains are operated by Shinra and scan their passengers' ID cards; if someone fails an ID check, they are to be arrested. The trains run around the [[Corkscrew Tunnel]] from the slums to the topside of [[Midgar]].
+The train graveyard has become haunted by ghosts, and the demon [[Eligor (VII Remake)|Eligor]].
+{{clear}}
 ==Locations==
-{{locat-stub|Final Fantasy VII}}
+{{Location section|Final Fantasy VII}}
 ===Last Train from Midgar===
 ====Cargo Car====
+[[File:Train-ffvii-cargo.png|75px|thumb|right|Cargo Car.]]
-From [[Sector 8#Bridge|Sector 8 - Bridge]]
+Accessed from the [[Sector 8#Bridge|Sector 8 - Bridge]] after a cutscene, Cloud meets the rest of AVALANCHE in this car. It is dark with a blue tint, due to its lighting, and mostly metallic and filled with wiideb crates, and contains no passengers.
+{{clear}}
 ====Car #1====
+[[File:Train-ffvii-passengers.png|100px|thumb|right|Car #1.]]
-Route map. To [[Sector 7#Sector 7 Slums Station|Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station]]
+The second car, this contains a few passengers, until Barret scares most of them away. To [[Sector 7#Sector 7 Slums Station|Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station]]. The car contains green benches along the side, and all the members of AVALANCHE can be interacted with here. At the front right, Jessie stands next to a [[#Routemap|routemap]], which Cloud can access by speaking to her.
 ===Train to Sector 4===
-To [[Sector 4#Tunnels|Sector 4 - Tunnels]]. The car the player jumps off at corresponds to the tunnel arrived at. Lower car numbers means the player jumps off further south in the tunnel, which is further from the storyline goal.
+This train takes the party to [[Sector 4#Tunnels|Sector 4 - Tunnels]]. A timer occurs here during [[#Train to Sector 4 escape|their escape]], though if it finishes before the fifth car, the player will jump off early.
 ====Car #1====
-From [[Sector 7#Sector 7 Slums Station|Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station]]
+The first car accessed from [[Sector 7#Sector 7 Slums Station|Sector 7 - Sector 7 Slums Station]]. This contains multiple non-player characters, though the one at the back-right can offer an item when spoken to, which is 1 Phoenix Down. The timer here is fifteen seconds.
 ====Car #2====
+[[File:Train-ffvii-2-p6s2.png|100px|thumb|right|Car #2.]]
+The second car is identical in appearance, though the camera angle is flipped. This time, the non-player character at the front-left must be spoken to in order to obtain the item here, which is 1 Hi-Potion. The timer here is fifteen seconds.
 ====Car #3====
+[[File:Train-ffvii-4-p2s1x.png|100px|thumb|right|Car #3.]]
+The third car is viewed from a completely different top-down camera angle. This car features a gil thief named 'Suri' who robs exactly 100 gil from the player (if the player has less than 100 gil, nothing happens), who can be chased down and made to return their gil. The timer here is thirty seconds.
 ====Car #4====
+The fourth car is identical in appearance to the third, and features no non-player characters with items. The timer here is seventeen seconds.
-[same field screen as Car #4]
 ====Car #5====
+[[File:Train-ffvii-3.png|100px|thumb|right|Car #5.]]
-*Last car
+The fifth car is viewed from a similar buy slightly lower angle to the first. This is the final car, and the party always gets off here. The passengers here are all Shinra soldiers.
 ===Coal Train===
-{{Main|Coal Train}}
+{{main|Coal Train}}
+The Coal Train is drastically different from the train in Midgar, as it is not used as commercial transport, but instead to move Materia around, and not running on Mako energy, the Coal Train
 ==Stations==
+[[File:Midgar train route map from FFVII Remake.png|thumb|Train route map in ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.]]
 Each sector in Midgar has at least one train station, making a total of eight stations used by passengers to embark and disembark at various points in the city proper.
-In the Midgar slums there exists at least one station, which is also linked to the [[Train Graveyard]].
+In the Midgar slums there exists at least one station, which is also linked to the [[train graveyard]].
+The train services operate from 5:13 am to 1:35 am {{Show image|Midgar train schedule from FFVII Remake.png}}.
+==Gameplay==
+===Quests===
+[[File:Train-ffvii-routemap.png|Routemap on the train.|thumb|right|100px|Routemap.]]
+*[[At the Hideout in the Slums]]
+*[[To the No. 5 Reactor]]
+A train first appears briefly in the chapter "At the Hideout in the Slums", on the way from [[Sector 8]] to [[Sector 7]]. Here, the only goal is to interact with AVALANCHE, particularly Jessie, to view the roadmap. Later, in "To the No. 5 Reactor" a train from Sector 7 to [[Sector 5]] features, though a quest is involved in which Cloud and AVALANCHE must escape the train quickly, determining where in [[Sector 4]] they arrive.
+===Coal Train===
+{{main|Coal Train#Quests}}
+The Coal Train requires the player to prevent it crashing in order to unlock the [[Huge Materia (Final Fantasy VII)|Huge Materia]].
+===Date mechanics===
+The two Midgar trains can both have a slight effect on the hidden [[Date mechanics (Final Fantasy VII)|date mechanics]].
+When [[Jessie Rasberry|Jessie]] is talking to Cloud in the [[#Car #1|first Car]] of the train from Midgar, his answer affects the game's [[Date mechanics (Final Fantasy VII)|date mechanics]]:
+*"Thanks anyway" (No change)
+*"Looking forward to it" (-3 Tifa)
+On the second train to Sector 4, getting through the train without being caught by the security system affects the date mechanics in a following manner: (+5 Tifa, +5 Barret)
+==Behind the scenes==
+Although it is revealed that the train was part of a holographic training simulation, the opening scene of ''Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-'' [[Final Fantasy VII series allusions|mirrors]] the start of the original ''Final Fantasy VII''. The opening scene of ''Final Fantasy VII'' itself was also remade as a [[Final Fantasy VII technical demo|technical demo]] of the PlayStation 3's graphic system. The scene reprises again in ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.
+Built underneath Midgar, [[Deepground]] has a separate monorail system that ferries people through the underground city to various locations.
+In ''Final Fantasy VII Remake'', the Sector 7 slums' train station has two NPC boys who discuss decommissioned trains, mentioning models 131, 97 and 102. These numbers appear to [[Final Fantasy VII series allusions|allude]] to the dates the original ''Final Fantasy VII'' was released in Japan: January 31st, 1997 (97.1.31.)<!--Japanese date format-->, and October 2nd, 1997 (97.10.2.) for the [[International Version]].
 ==Gallery==
+<gallery>
-{{Gallery|class=compVIIa
-|File:FF7TrainRenders.jpg|Train renders in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+FF7TrainRenders.jpg|Train renders in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
-|File:FF7TrainRenders2.jpg|Train renders in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+FF7TrainRenders2.jpg|Train renders in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
-|File:FF7TrainBC2.jpg|Train in ''Before Crisis''.
+FF7TrainBC2.jpg|Train in ''Before Crisis''.
-|File:Train.png|Interior of a train in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+Train-ffvii-field-v2kisya.png|Train field model in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
-|File:Train-ffvii-cargo.png|Cargo room of a train.
+Train-ffvii-field-kyak.png|Train field model in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
-|File:Train-ffvii-field-v2kisya.png|Train field model in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+Coal-train-ffvii.png|Coal train in Mt. Corel.
-|File:Train-ffvii-field-kyak.png|Train field model in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+FF7TrainPS3Demo.jpg|Train in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII technical demo]]''.
+FF7RemakeTrailerTrain.png|Train in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII Remake]]'' announcement trailer.
-|File:Coal-train-ffvii.png|Coal train in Mt. Corel.
-|File:FF7TrainPS3Demo.jpg|Train in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII Technical Demo]]''.
+FFVIIR train.jpg|Train in ''[[Final Fantasy VII Remake]]''.
-|File:FF7TrainCrisisCore.jpg|Train in ''Crisis Core''.
+FF7TrainCrisisCore.jpg|Train in ''Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-''.
+VIIBC Train Battle 2.png|Train interior in ''Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-''.
-}}
+Hoka train artwork for Final Fantasy VII Remake.png|Hoka-type train artwork for ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.
+Muka train artwork for Final Fantasy VII Remake.png|Muka-type train artwork for ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.
+Train car artwork for FFVII Remake.png|Train carriage artwork for ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.
+Freight car artwork for FFVII Remake.png|Freight car artwork for ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''.
+</gallery>
+{{navbox setting VIIBC}}
+{{navbox VIICC}}
+{{navbox FFVII}}
+{{navbox transportation}}
+[[Category:Vehicles in Final Fantasy VII]]
-==Trivia==
+[[Category:Transportation in Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-]]
-*There are also abandoned rail systems running through [[Mt. Corel]]; an abandoned mining location and site for a destroyed Mako Reactor, but are only used once by Shinra in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' in an attempt to transport a [[Huge Materia]] from the location. Cloud's party, temporarily lead by [[Cid Highwind]], attack this train to save the Materia. The train then goes out of control. Depending upon the player's actions this train can be stopped or it will crash into the town of [[North Corel]].
+[[Category:Transportation in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-]]
-*Although it is revealed that the train was part of a [[Virtual Reality System|holographic training simulation]], the opening scene of ''[[Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-]]'' mirrors the start of the original ''Final Fantasy VII''.
+[[Category:Trains]]
-*The opening scene of ''Final Fantasy VII'' was later remade as a [[Final Fantasy VII Technical Demo|technical demo]] of the PlayStation 3's graphic system.
-*Built underneath Midgar, [[Deepground]] has a separate monorail system that ferries people through the underground city to various locations.
+[[ru:Поезд (Final Fantasy VII)]]
-{{VIIBC}}
-{{VIICC}}
-{{FFVII}}
-{{Transportation}}
-[[Category:Final Fantasy VII]]
-[[Category:Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-]]
-[[Category:Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-]]
-[[Category:Transportation]]